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Juan Gabriel Vasquezbooks include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.

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Unbroken

Outcast Season: Book Four

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For millennia, Cassiel was a powerful Djinn—until she was exiled to live among mortals. Now the threat of an apocalypse looms, and Cassiel is in danger of losing everything she has come to hold dear…

As the world begins to fall apart around her, Cassiel finds herself fighting those she once called her own: the Djinn. With Weather Warden Luis Rocha and the rescued child Ibby by her side, Cassiel struggles to find a way to protect those who are in her charge and come to terms with the leadership role she never asked for.

Cassiel is opposed by Pearl—a powerful Djinn bent on raising an army of kidnapped Warden children to bring about nothing less than the end of the world. It will take everything Cassiel has to stop the Djinn from starting a war that will wipe all of humanity from the face of the earth. She knows that this might not be a battle she can survive, but protecting those she loves is worth any cost…

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Dear Reader Letter

Dear Reader, What a long, strange trip it’s been for Cassiel the former Djinn…the last novel in the Outcast Season series, Unbroken, brings the Weather Warden universe to a close with the resolution of outcast Cassiel’s story. It was a massive undertaking—the Weather Warden series is nine books (following the adventures of Warden Joanne Baldwin and her Djinn lover David), which was huge in itself, but going into Cassiel’s story I knew that it not only had to be a standalone series in the same universe (and sharing some of the same characters) but also had to address the very events of Total Eclipse, the last Warden novel. Since Cassiel and her Earth Warden partner Luis played a role in that story, it seemed only fair to give Unbroken Cassiel’s unique spin on those world–changing events, but also tie it into her own mission, assigned to her by the leader of the Djinn…another crisis that might destroy the world itself, never mind those pesky humans. I’ve had such a marvelous time playing in the Warden universe…Joanne’s journey was an adrenaline rush of fast cars, sexy Djinn, disasters and triumphs, and through it all, Joanne held on to her sense of humor and core of basic goodness. What I wanted out of Cassiel was different…a longer game, a different set of realities and pressures. Through the previous novels of Outcast Season, Cassiel’s grown more and more human, but she never forgets that humans are late–comers to the party…and the Djinn owe as much, or more, to every other living thing on the planet, including the sentient Mother Earth herself. Her struggle, and her story, has had different overtones to it, and while she’s learned to understand and appreciate the beauty and flaws of humanity, this is the book where she must weigh everything she’s learned against everything she thinks she knows…and make the ultimate choice between humanity and the survival of Mother Earth herself. I hope you enjoy this final chapter of the Weather Wardens story as much as I’ve loved inhabiting this world with you. Best wishes, Rachel Caine